“There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world. That sparked violence in various parts of the world, including violence directed against Western facilities including our embassies and consulates.” PeopleWorldStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesViolenceInternetWesternIncludingVariousVideoAround The WorldDisgustingOffensiveFacilityHatefulState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentEmbassy Author:Susan Rice
“Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs” PeopleShouldTryingGovernmentPayResponsibilityBearsCostWesternOilProducersWelfare Author:Mohammad Khatami
“In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.” StatesGovernmentMiddleRelationTownsWesternActiveLocalsCountyColonyLocal GovernmentForerunners Author:Albert Bushnell Hart
“The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.” PeopleRealGovernmentVoiceDealsWesternRepresentativesBe EncouragedKurdish Author:Jalal Talabani
“The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing," Fukuyama argued, "the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring.” WorldHumansMayIdeasEndsProblemGovernmentFormStruggleDemocracyEconomicMankindEvolutionModelsWesternFinalsBoringDevotedMundaneIdeologicalExhilaratingThesisLiberal Democracy Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.” WayIdeasGovernmentCultureSidesNumbersCompanyWesternChineseOfficialsLarge Numbers Author:Ian Buruma
“No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.” LongGovernmentTermPolicyWesternLong TermForeign Policy Author:Damian Lewis
“It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.” PeopleIfsGovernmentStylePressesWesternMotiveRelevantDefectsWestern Society Author:William Pfaff